View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Hester's "happy infancy and stainless maidenhood?"
(a) Salem.
(b) Rural England.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Bustling London.

2. Which character seeks to make him or herself "the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear"?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Hibbins.
(d) Dimmesdale.

3. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?
(a) "The joy in his beating heart."
(b) "The anguish in his inmost soul."
(c) "The mercy of almightly Heaven."
(d) "The malice in Chillingworth's eyes."

4. While his health is failing, Dimmesdale has achieved what in his profession?
(a) "Brillant popularity."
(b) "Sturdier texture."
(c) "Sanctimonius reputation."
(d) "Populist ire."

5. Who, in Chapter 5, is referred to as "the figure, the body, the reality of sin?"
(a) Hibbins.
(b) Dimmesdale.
(c) Hester.
(d) Pearl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do most Puritans fast, according to the narrator?

2. What is the title of Chapter 18?

3. "Hester at her WHAT" is the title of Chapter 5?

4. With what kind of natural objects has Pearl decorated herself in Chapter 18?

5. Hester's work is seen everywhere with the exception of:

(see the answer key)

This section contains 205 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample